Dreams & Schemes

There is a time in everyone’s life that they have to sit back and take stock. There are a ton of things that have happened for me this year to make this the year. I turned 35 in early August, and I confess that it was the first ‘hard’ birthday. I still feel young but I can feel some of the age things creeping in. Metabolism slowing down. Gym memberships, impulses to by sports cars, that feeling like you weren’t where you thought you would be (wherever that is) at this age… Basically, in my youth I had a ton of not-very-well-formed dreams. Now, I realize, I need to form them or I will not get them done. I also need to cull a few of the less important ones. The walls in our bathroom need to be redone (dream on) so we have picked a wall to which we affix various quotes, thoughts and pictures. This way I can stand and pee and think deep thoughts. About a month ago, Anie stuck a quote from a magazine on our ‘reading wall’ that read simply:

“Your Dreams Miss You”

The first time I read it I knew it was true. While the rapid growth of our design firm is exciting and gratifying, there is a lot of things for the creative director to do, and not tons of time to think about direction, dreams, and ironically, making sure that creative muscle is exercised. Part of this taking stock is me realizing that I need to do more creating. For me, for my work, for my sanity, for my legacy. I have now, and maybe not tomorrow. Now I just need to remember what my dreams are. I did this little drawing on my holidays to remind myself to think about these things, and chase after them. Hopefully my dreams and I will become more familiar once again.